Sound Toll Registers Online.

Jan Willem Veluwenkamp,Werner Scheltjens,Siem Van Der Woude

doi:10.18352/tseg.1203

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https://doi.org/10.18352/tseg.1203

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Abstract

In 2020, the University of Groningen and Tresoar, the Frisian Historical and Literary Center in Leeuwarden, completed the online database providing instant and free access to the complete Sound Toll Registers. This database, Sound Toll Registers Online (STRO), is already available to everyone at www.soundtoll.nl. Huygens ING is now taking over STRO from Tresoar and the University of Groningen to ensure its quality, accessibility and continuity.

Highlights

The Sound Toll Registers (STR) are the records of the toll levied by the kings of Denmark on the ships passing through the Sound, the main strait connecting the North Sea and the Baltic Sea
Information increased with the gradual introduction of additional tolls in the course of the centuries
In the years from 1633 to the nineteenth century, the information for each individual passage was recorded in one entry in the original Sound Toll Registers and, was entered in one record of the database

Summary

The Sound Toll Registers and the Sound Toll Tables

The Sound Toll Registers (STR) are the records of the toll levied by the kings of Denmark on the ships passing through the Sound, the main strait connecting the North Sea and the Baltic Sea. Information increased with the gradual introduction of additional tolls in the course of the centuries It reached its more or less definitive form by the eigh teenth century, when for each individual passage, both westward and eastward, the STR contain the declaration date, the name of the shipmaster, his place of residence,[3] his ports of departure and destination, the composition of the cargo and the toll paid. The STR are well known as one of the great serial sources of early modern history and the only one with rich and detailed information on European shipping and trade that spans a period of four centuries. Ever since the publication of the first volume of the STT in 1906, these tables, rather than the STR themselves, have been used in almost every major study of early modern European transport and trade; only a few researchers have dived into the original source.[6]

Sound Toll Registers Online

From the STR via the STT to STRO

The reliability of the Sound Toll Registers

The intricacies of Sound Toll Registers Online

Findings

Research and research prospects